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Read Native Rites online (0)

We’re continuing to experiment with new distribution mechanisms around here and as part of this we’re now making an entire novel available online. Click below to read (and download if you subscribe to Scribd) Native Rites, the fourth book I wrote.…

Some new places to eat in Venice (2)

It’s amazing to think how much Venice has improved in terms of food over the past decade. Once it was hard even to get a decent pizza here. Now things are so much better, provided you avoid the tourist traps…

Reviews of The Seventh Sacrament (0)

Booklist, the Americal Library Association’s influential magazine, says of The Seventh Sacrament…

Hewson’s uncompromising trio of antiestablishment Roman cops—Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni, and their boss, Leo Falcone—are back in the Eternal City and up to their necks in another vat of hot water. As with the previous four entries in this always-captivating series, the crime on the front burner—a dead body discovered in a Roman church—is merely the entrée point to a case with tentacles extending deep into ancient history…Hewson keeps his readers securely tethered to a narrative lifeline; like Theseus on the trail of the minotaur, we follow the plot around countless blind corners but never lose our way out of the maze. The interplay between Hewson’s three cops—and between them and the especially rich supporting cast—lift this novel far above the plot-driven Da Vinci Code and its many imitators. A superb mix of history, mystery, and humanity.

The hidden city: underground Rome (5)

Some questions never go away. One I get constantly is, ‘Why did you choose to set your books in Rome?’ The honest answer is I didn’t; Rome chose me, clubbing me over the head one day when I happened to be there editing a book about somewhere else entirely. I’ve now completed seven Costa novels, and still have two more to go under my present contract… and hopefully lots after that.

Holiday and novels (0)

I get a lot of requests for information on some of the real life locations in my books. This why you will find maps in most editions now, and annotated Google maps for the titles on this site. But it…

Some new toys for writing (0)

The eighth Nic Costa book is now done. So I’m thinking about the ninth. I have a location, a rough idea of the story, and perhaps even a title. Most of the research is done too, so now I am…